The once broke open the gold record they were awarded for sales of ther 1989 album – and they were stunned to hear piano versions of Barry Manilow and other artists rather than their own music. Ad-Rock and Mike D recall the marijuana-fuelled incident and the realisation that gold records not only may contain no gold at all, but they also may not even contain the music being lauded. Ad-Rock tells the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast: "So we're at our studio here in California and I was smoking the pot.
"This was a long time ago. And we had a gold record on the wall. It was our record, .
I was looking at it and I could see it has our label and I could see that it has whatever, like nine songs on the one side. And I was looking at the actual gold record and it only had four songs on it." So naturally, the band had to know what was up and they smashed open the frame to play the record.
Ad-Rock continues: "And so we opened it and put the record on a record player." Mike D adds: "Open it like, I mean, broke the glass and took the record out and put it on the thing." What they heard came as a shock.
Ad-Rock says: "It was somebody doing like piano versions of like Barry Manilow, like . Just some other shit." The latest news, features and interviews direct to your inbox, from the global home of alternative music.
The rappers say they can't be sure if this just happened to them or if all gold records contain elevator music. "I'd like to think that for, you know, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Barry Manilow, a real mega-star, that it was actually their record," adds Mike D. was produced by The Dust Brothers and has gone on to become a double platinum selling album.
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